Chapter CXXXII: Act III

SC. 1. "Who have--as who have not, that their great stars _have_?"

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SC. 4. "Hast thou _too_ given all unto thy daughters?"

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"Dolphin, my boy, my boy!
Cessè, let him trot by."

As these seem to be the words of the French King to his son in a ballad quoted by Steevens, I have given the French _cesse_ instead of the Spanish _cesa_ for the _cease_ of the 4tos, _sessy_ of the folio.

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"Child Rowland to the dark tower came."

Capell saw that a line was wanting here; for what follows must be the words of the Giant. He would read with the 4tos _come_; but there was no necessity, for in these ballads the first and third lines rarely rimed. The lost line may have been something like this: "The Giant saw him, and out he ran."

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SC. 6. "A horse's heels," etc.

The originals read _health_, which is wrong beyond question, as is proved by the proverb in Fordun and Ray, cited by the critics.

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"What store her heart is made of."

'Store' an obvious error for _stone_.

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"This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews."

For 'sinews' Theobald read _senses_, which has been generally received, but perhaps without necessity.